Mortality & Life Tables · Antique book archive
Mortality Statistics of insured Wage-Earners and Their Families
By Metropolitan Life Insurance Company · Published 1919 · Public domain (original) · Scan © Glenn Cooke
Met Life’s mortality experience tables 1911-1916. Weird diseases, experience split by race, etc. But that’s not even the coolest part. This copy was donated by Met Life to Dr. Herman G. Morgan. This guy was the Board of Health Secretary in Indiana and ordered business closures, a cap on community gatherings, and mandatory mask wearing during the pandemic of 1918. What a connection to of the present to the past this particular book is.
The Excel data
The downloadable mortalitystatisticsinsuredwageearners.zip contains selected pages from the original book transcribed into Excel, plus a high-resolution image of each transcribed page (the image filename matches the corresponding .xlsx).
The data is in the public domain. You're welcome to use it; we just ask you link back to the archive so others can find it.
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